Re: Alternatives to the Twenty-Fifth Amendment (on Vice-Presidential Vacancies)

"Invid Fan" <invid@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> In article <memo.20080706030026.256C@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> Richard Gadsden <richard@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>> Could the electoral college have been constructed to be more
significant?
>>
>> Perhaps if the college convened in the capital (ie in DC once it has
been
>> built) and therefore existed as a collegiate body, and then remained in
>> existence for the full term, with perhaps a responsibility to
scrutinise
>> the presidency and the operations of the executive branch.
>>
> You've either duplicated Congress or created a fourth branch of
> government here :)

Or maybe simply as another aspect of the executive. Consider an Electoral 
College in being who had as it's narrow function the impeachment or lesser

censures of a president.

 So in the case of a Nixon or Clinton or Johnson rather than Congress
having 
this role the EC does. Given that the EC will be at least initially 
pre-disposed to be sympathetic to the president this would be a dissuasion

to pernicious use of the EC.

 I am not suggesting this would be superior to the current system but as a

what-if it has possibilities.